Articles and Publications

Articles and Publications by Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter A new manuscript directly related to George Fox will always excite scholars ofQuaker history. In "A New Letter to George Fox" (Journal of the Friends 'HistoricalSociety 57.3 (1996): 221-227), Geoffrey A. Nuttall presents his evidence for identifying Fox as the recipient ofa 1653 letter in the Friends House Library fromMorgan Llwyd, described in Fox'sJournal as "the priest at Rexam in Wales." Other studies of seventeenth-century Quakerism deal with America. James E. Maule describes a major victory for religious liberty in his study of his ancestor, Better That 100 Witches Should Live: The 1696 Acquittal of Thomas Maule of Salem, Massachusetts (Villanova, PA: Jembook Publishing, 1995). About half of the large volume is a reprint of Maule's works. In "The Records of the First 'American' Denomination: The Keithians of Pennsylvania, 1694-1700" (Pennsylvania Magazine ofHistory and Biography 120.1/2 (1996): 89-105), Jon Butler produces letters from Keith and Budd to their Pennsylvania supporters in 1694 and the records of the Keithian Baptist congregation in Chester County, 16921700 . Janet Moore Lindman provides a fascinating view of the Keithian controversy from the Baptist perspective, examining its impact on Delaware Valley Baptists in her dissertation, "A World of Baptists: Gender, Race, and Religious Community in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 16891825 " (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1994). In "Confessions of an American Ranter" (Pennsylvania History 62.2 (1995): 238-248), Brendan McConville uses John Pearce's self-identification as a "Ranter" in his letters dated 1687, 1706, and 1708 as evidence in support ofthe existence of a distinct sect by that name in the seventeenth century. Pendle Hill has published all nine presentations from the very successful autumn, 1994 Monday evening lecture series,John Woolman 's Spirituality and Our Contemporary Witness, edited by Shirley Dodson (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 1995). Contributors include Anne Dalke and Susan Dean, John Lampen, Sterling Olmsted, Mary Rose O'Reilley, Tom Head, Elizabeth Watson, Philip Boroughs, Michael A. Heller, and Daniel A. Seeger. The centennial ofthe 1895 Manchester Conference continues to stimulate re-evaluations of the past century of British Quakerism. In a special issue of Friends' Quarterly (30.2; 1996), The Manchester 1895-1995 Conference, two articles deal directly with the earlier gathering: an essay by David Blamires on "The Context and Character ofthe 1895 Manchester Conference" (pp. 50-58), and Susan V. Hartshorne's article on "The 1895 Conference as Viewed by My Grandparents," Dorothy Crowley and Articles and Publications71 Edward Vipont Brown (pp. 58-65). Thomas C. Kennedy explores the impact ofthe conference in his article, "What Hath Manchester Wrought? Change in the Religious Society of Friends, 1895-1920" (Journal ofthe Friends' Historical Society 57.3 (1996): 277-305). He argues that the Manchester Conference confirmed an ongoing theological shift to modern liberalism and laid the basis for a more progressive social policy, leading directly to the full equality ofwomen in the Society ofFriends and public support ofconscientious objectors who defied the law during World War I. In his review of"Quaker Theology Since 1 895" (Friends ' Quarterly 30.3 (1996): 131-143), Martin Davie argues that the theology of liberal Quakerism that emerged from Manchester was still clearly centered in Jesus Christ but lost the tradition ofChristian doctrine; the radicalism characterizing British Quakerism since the 1960s could reject the definition of Quakerism as Christian because there was no strong Christian doctrine to resist. "Religion and Ethics in the Thought of Richard Ullmann" (19041963 ), by T. Vail Palmer, Jr. (QuakerReligious Thought 28.1 (cumulative no. 87): 11-31) stands as an interesting case study of a mid-twentiethcentury convinced Friend who drew on both seventeenth-century Quakerism and twentieth-century existentialism. Ben Pink Dandelion presents another perspective on contemporary Quakerism in the published version ofhis dissertation,^ SociologicalAnalysis ofthe Theology ofQuakers: The Silent Revolution (Studies in Religion and Society, 34), Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996. (See Quaker History 83.1 (1994):62) In terms ofvolume, Women's Studies continues to dominate the scholarly output related to Quaker history, with a wide span of specific topics. Bernadette Diane Andrea's doctoral dissertation for Cornell University (1996), "Properly Speaking: Publishing Women...